Cumbria will take centre stage on a popular daytime BBC show next week.
Crews from BBC One’s Antiques Road Trip filmed in Workington and Brampton earlier this year.
Antiques experts David Harper and Hettie Jago go head-to-head in the series, starting with £1,500 each, and the winner will be the expert who wins the most auctions from five trips to the sale room.
Workington and Brampton feature in the third episode of the five-programme competition on Wednesday, November 29.
When Antiques Road Trip visited Workington in April, the experts met some of town’s Uppies and Downies players for a segment of the show.
Uppies and Downies is a no-rules mass football game that happens in the town on Good Friday, Easter Tuesday and the following Saturday.
Hettie and David met with game stalwarts Joe Clark, Ian Rollason and Elvin Jarvis at the Cloffocks – where the game begins.
Hettie – backing the Uppies – and Elvin visited Workington Hall and David – backing the Downies – with Ian and Joe, were at Workington harbour.
After filming, Elvin said: “Me and Hettie also visited the Helena Thompson Museum. They learned about the game, the history and importance of why we want the game to continue.
“Me and David Shepherd managed to get some leather and Mark Rawlinson’s ball making tools for the team to have a go at making a ball as well.”
Mr Rawlinson has been making the special leather ball for each game for decades and the winner – who hails the ball at either Workington Hall for the Uppies or Workington harbour for the Downies – gets to keep it.
The film crew also attended one of the games to see it in action.
The blurb for the show says: “Our pair also attend match day in Workington and discover the brutal delights of a traditional, mass football game called Uppies and Downies.”
Antiques Road Trip will be broadcast on Wednesday, November 29, at 2.45pm on BBC One, then repeated on BBC Two on Thursday November 30 at 6.30am.
